If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

Why sell bees after pollination?

I have noticed a lot of beeks have bees for sale comming out of the almond groves or other pollination sites? Why would they want to sell them?

If they plan to stay in business won't they need them the next year?

If I understand right the bees are often week comming out of the groves. Is this because there are more bees per acre than the land will support? If so would they be ok if moved onto better foraging conditions?

they are last years bees, so make a bunch for almonds, then make that much more again for sale, with no worries or expenses about feeding or treating thru the year. makes good business sense, as can have newer equipment and fresh bees that didn't go to almonds to build up for the next season.

"A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere." - Burt Shavitz (Burt's Buzz)

Why Sell

Or what if you've had back surgery, knee surgery, strokes and stress. What if you wanted to spend your summer in Scandinavia taking saunas and catching northern pikes at the summer house. I mean while there is still something left on the tape measure.

So Tom this year its Scandinavia? Wasn't it Greece last year or was that the year before?

Broke...Bees are stronger coming out of Almonds not weaker. Usually require splitting right away. It works for us in that by the time they get here we can spit, feed and get um staged so that in late April early May they are built up and ready for the first blooms. I just do Almonds to help out those poor Calf. guys that can't get enough bees together and are always depending on the blokes from down under to bail them out.